55 Chapter 50 (part 2)

The next day;

Percy and Thalia walked through the Labyrinth towards the camp Jupiter side of the tunnel.

"So how do you think they are going to react?" Thalia asked walking hand in hand with Percy.

"No clue," Percy told her, "honestly I don't expect them to believe me. After all why should they? A pill which destroys the scent of a demigod is kind of a farfetched idea, even for me. Some might believe us, like Jason and Julia, but the others….well we'll just have to see."

Thalia nodded, "I just hope the Senate doesn't try to screw us over, again."

Percy chuckled, "oh Sparky you know they are going to at least try. After all, what decent citizen of Rome would just allow two Greeks to walk about unharassed?"

"You really need to stop bullying the Roman's Percy," Thalia told him, "and don't try to deny it. You're twice as hard on them then with us."

Percy sighed, "yeah, but that's because they need that tough love Thalia. They have been trained to think and act a certain way by very angry and scary men. If I have any hope of getting them ready to fight Kronos's army I need to be louder, angrier and scarier."

Thalia nodded, "yeah….I suppose you're right." Soon they reached the exit, Percy pressed his hand on the closed wall causing it to open up revealed the service tunnel leading to camp Jupiter.

They quickly made their way to their camp, and after a few moments of arguing with the gate gaurd, they managed to get inside. They walked down the military encampment, nothing had changed at all, everyone kept going about their business, a few suspicious looks were thrown their way, but none of them were hostile.

As they walked to the center of the camp Percy noticed that a new addition was made. Right in the middle of crossroads was a circular slab of black marble 4 feet high. On the sides and on the top were the names of dead Romans along with a few words written out in Latin that Percy' couldn't make out.

But that was not what captured his eye. In the middle of the marble slab was the Golden Eagle embedded deep inside the marble structure, standing tall, proud and free. Percy smiled at it, and he could have sworn it smiled back.

"Well I didn't expect you two so soon," Julia's called out walking up to the couple with Rob behind her, "it's not the weekend already, right?"

"No Julia," Thalia shook her head, "it isn't. But does that mean we can't visit our favorite Romans?"

Rob huffed, "oh please, I don't believe for a second that this is a social call. What do you want Grace, and be quick about it. I need to get back to training my men. This time the first cohort fully intended to fight off the whole wave of zombies and the Legion zombie that will appear."

"Yeah, good luck with that," Percy said as he continued to look at the Eagle, "you did a great job with the Eagle Julia, it looks happy to be out here in the open."

Julia nodded, "thank you….but I didn't do it."

Percy tore his eyes away from the Eagle and looked at the Praetor of Rome, "you mean Rob did it? I didn't exactly pine him for the sentimental type."

"No, not me ether," Rob groaned.

"Then who?" Thalia asked.

"We don't know," Julia sighed, "it happened a few days ago. One day we woke up and poof, this thing appeared in the middle of the camp with the Eagle stuck in the middle. We tried to remove it, but we couldn't, it's basically stuck there."

Percy nodded, "I see….and you have no witnesses? Nobody heard or saw anything? Not even the Lares?"

Julia nodded, "yes one Lares did see something. It seems this ghost saw someone walk out of the Principia and to the crossroads. She snapped her fingers and suddenly this structure appeared out of thin air."

"She? As in a woman?" Thalia asked, "did he he get a good look at her face?"

Rob shook his head, "no. She had her hood up, and we are just assuming she is female, it is not confirmed."

"They why did the Lares think the intruder was a female?" Percy asked.

"Because when after she was done she turned away and made to leave the camp. Her hood moved to the side and the Lares saw that she had long blue hair with a very soft jawline," Julia told them, "we have checked every single person in the camp and in New Rome, and so far we got zero leeds."

Percy nodded, "I see…..did the Lares see anything else?"

"Yes, apparently our mystery women also wore some kind of glow in the dark contacts," Julia told him, "when we asked how the Lare knew that he….well he started to shake in fear."

"Shake? More like spas out," Rob said, "I have never seen a Lares more scared about anything. Like their dead, what do the dead have to fear? But apparently this woman's gaze of so powerful it scared the shit out of our Lares. Hell it took us a day to finally convince him to tell us about her."

"So what colour were her eyes?" Thalia asked.

"Yellow," Julia told her, "they were sulphuric yellow."

Percy nodded as he put away the information for latter. He looked out the marble stone, "what does the latin inscription say?"

"We don't know," Julia said, "we brought our resident language expert, a Latin teacher in New Rome college, a he couldn't make heads or tails of this thing. He only managed to translate one words, 'protect'."

Percy nodded and then Observed the block of marble;

Block of marble;

This is a simple block of marble that is inscribed with the names of dead Roman legionaries and # $%# $ which will #$!$ #$# !$ #.

Percy closed the box sighed, 'okay, so we have a new mystery on our hands. A strange woman who somehow managed to transport this thing with a snap of her fingers. And apparently she also placed some kind of spell on it. Maybe that was what caused the Eagle to be stuck in the stone.'

"Anyway, let's move on shall we?" Rob started, "why are you here?"

"We need to talk to the Senate," Percy told Rob, "it's a matter of emergency."

Julia looked surprised, "we can't just summon the Senate whenever we wish Percy. We need to be sure there is a good reason for it."

"We may have a way to permanently destroy the scent of demigods making them untraceable by monsters," Thalia replied, "would that be a good enough reason?"

Rob started with his mouth hanging open, "y-yeah. That'll do it."

"Y-You're serious about this?" Julia asked in guarded excitement, "like you aren't pulling my leg or something right?"

Percy shook his head, "no Julia we aren't. It works, everyone in the Greek camp is currently on it. For my birthday we all went to a water park and spent the whole day there. In the end no monsters were attracted to our location."

"None?" Rob asked, "none at all?"

Thalia nodded, "none. Well, we were attacked, by that was by a mad man, completely unrelated to the scent destroyers."

"We need to call a Senate meeting now," Julia told Rob as she turned around walking to her Principia, "come with me."

Percy and the others followed without question and in one hours time the two leaders of the Greek camp found themselves once again in front of the Senate with Julia addressing them all.

"Senators," Julia began, "once again the Greeks come to our doors and once again they bring us gift. This time it is not something we lost, but something we need, something we all need."

Julia paused, the Senators leaned in closer, they were very much interested in what she had to say. "They claim that they have found a way to mask the scent of a demigod," Julia spoke clearly. Many people gasped in exclamation, "a way to make demigods rejoin the human world."

"Is this true?" Edgar asked with amazed eyes.

"Yes, it is," Percy stepped up to the plate with arms crossed, "we have tested it out on ourselves. The whole camp is currently on it, we went to a water park on my birthday and stayed there the whole day. No monsters found us. We were basically like ordinary teenagers."

"Can you swear by that?" a squeaky voice in the front called out. Percy looked to see that it was Octavian, the Augur and fucking son of Apollo, once again proof that Apollo is a dick.

"Octavian, always a pleasure seeing your face," Percy grumbled, "and what do you mean swear by that?"

"I mean can you swear that these pills work?" Octavian asked.

Percy nodded, "yes, would you like me to do so?"

"Yes."

Thalia gave Percy a look but the son of Poseidon just smiled assuring her it will be alright. Percy turned to the Senate and cleared his throat, "I swear on the Styx that every demigod in the Greek camp currently does not have a scent."

BOOM!

Lighting rang out outside as the Senator started to talk amongst themselves in hushed tones. Thalia sighed and shook her head. She didn't like him swearing on the Styx, but this time it was unavoidable.

"So now that I haven't proven myself," Percy began, "will you all consider trying them out for yourself?"

"Praetor Percy," Edgar spoke up, "can you tell us how this scent destroyer came to be?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. Well honestly this story kind of starts with a child of Hermes named Edward Neak."

"You mean Neak from Half-Blood Inc.?" a Senator asked.

Percy nodded, "yeah, fan of his work?"

"I read the Economy," the senator admitted, "though now that I think about his company's name it should have been obvious that he was a demigod, or at the very least a legacy."

Thalia chuckled, "yeah, Ed isn't the most subtle person. Heck his lobby is basically a Greek museum and his office is filled with paintings and statues of Hermes. It's almost like he wanted everyone to know he was a demigod."

Percy smiled, "yeah….anyway. I meet up with Ed on my very first quest, he helped me out and since then we have been in contact with each other. Now before I continue, do you all know of an organization known as Abyss?"

The Senators shook their heads and Percy sighed. He then began to explain to them everything. What Abyss was, what they did. How he and Thalia helped Ed get the formula for the pills and how Ed created the pills for them.

"So it works?" Edgar asked, "it actually works?"

Percy nodded, "yeah...it does."

"Then the people of Rome deserve to know," Julia spoke up, "for far too long our people have been forced to live separately from the mortals. We have a right to a fair life, a good life. I propose that we accept Percy and Thalia's offer."

"No," Octavian spoke out, "this must not happen."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "you would deny people a chance to live without being hunted by monsters?"

The Senate turned and glared at Octavian who gulped in fear, "l-look, as amazing as this pill is, if we give them to people it would encourage them to leave New Rome. Think of our economy, it would crash into the ground if people just stopped coming here! Pluto, this has been our way of life for more than a century! We can't change now!"

Percy understood the boy's worries, and he wanted to address them all. But Rob spoke first.

"Octavian I understand your concern," Rob spoke in a gentle tone, "but understand this, demigods are alone in this world. We are alone. Though we may look like mortals we are not them, and though we are the children of Gods we don't belong with them. This is our home, people won't just leave it Octavian."

"Look out our camp itself Octavian," Percy continued, "they all got the pill four days ago, and not one person left camp yet. And unlike New Rome camp Half-blood doesn't have homes or shop or school or anything. It is just a camp, this….this is a community, one which I have come to love. The pill is a tool, a crutch if will. It doesn't do anything other than make sure a demigod doesn't get eaten by a monster or something. That is all."

Octavian and his supports fell into whispers. Percy and Thalia waited in anticipation, Julia and Rob looked confident, but inside they were also scared. Soon all talks stopped and Octavian stood up.

"If we do this, there is no going back….is everyone in the Senate in agreal?"

Everyone nodded. Ovarian sighed and sat down without another word. Julia then walked up and cleared her throat, "then it is decided. We start giving these pills out to the people. Percy," she turned to him, "how much do you have on you right now?"

Percy grinned as he took out the two silver briefcases Edward had given him the day before, "lots."

Julia and Rob were the first ones to try them. When the spiciness of the food hit them they began to choke. The Romans thought they had been poisoned and started to point figures at Percy and Thalia. But the son of Poseidon quickly diffused the situation by helping Rob and Julia recover.

Maybe he should have lead with the fact that the pill tasted like raw chills.

Soon every single member of the Senate had taken a pill, even Octavian, though under protest. The Romans kept the rest of the pills in storage, for now the idea of making everyone immune was put on hold. The Senators would test out the pills themselves and only after they are sure there are no side effects would they even consider giving it to other people.

Percy also gave them Ed's number, for when they ran out. The two cases may have been packed with pills, but even those wouldn't' be enough for the amount of people currently living in New Rome.

"I'll make sure people know who to thank for this," Julia told Percy and Thalia as they walked out of the Senate and along the roads of New Rome, "they might not say it, but you Greeks have given us a ray of hope. And the people will know who to thank for it."

"It was nothing," Thalia replied with a shrug, "in fact it was Ed who did all the hard work."

Percy nodded, "yeah, we just...well kind of hung around."

"Either way it was a Greek who gave us a chance at life," Rob smiled, "maybe you lot aren't so bad after all."

Percy smiled, "thanks war boy, that means so much coming from you." Pery then began to look around the streets of New Rome. The buildings were nice, very sturdy. Percy would have to remember to build a strong foundation, maybe 10, 11 feet deep? He needed to increase his molecular manipulation ability, with that he could basically make the buildings into any form or shape he desired.

"Is he okay?" Julia asked Thalia looking at Percy stare and analyze every building they pass by.

"Oh, yeah, don't worry about it. He's just looking for inspiration," Thalia replied with a smile, "he wants to see what buildings he can rip off and put on his island."

Rob raised an eyebrow, "island?"

Thalia nodded, "yeah...didn't we tell you guys? Percy owns an island."

"Which one?" Julia asked.

"Gardiner's island," at their confused looks Thalia explained, "it's just off the coast of Long Island."

Rob whistled, "damn, how did he get a place like that?"

"A guy owed me a favour," Percy said, "don't ask."

"So what are you going to do on this island of yours?" Julia asked.

"I'm going to build a city for Greek demigods," Percy explained with a smile, "I actually got the idea off of you guys."

Julia smiled, "I see...well that is very noble of you Percy."

Rob grinned, "yeah, if it was me I would us the entire island as a bachelor pad."

Julia rolled her eyes, "yes, you would."

Rob started stammering as he tried to apologize to Julia but the girl wasn't listening to him. Percy chuckled, the guy had it bad.

Just then a thought passed by Percy's head, "hey Julia, I was wondering, how does New Rome collage work with the outside world?"

Julia looked away from Rob, "what do you mean?"

"I mean this place is hidden away from the outside world right? So that means people don't' know about it. So if a demigod obtains a degree here and leaves how can they prove the college they got to, that no one has heard off, is legit and not made up?"

Julia groaned, "honestly Percy I don't know. Hm...you know what now that you asked I'm curious to find out as well. I know the principle of the college, and since today is a Sunday he would be free. Want to go ask him?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. I want to build a school on the island as well. Obviously I have no idea about the legal issues or things like that. It would be really useful if I talked to the guy."

Julia nodded, "okay then. Let's go."

"Why don't you guys go ahead," Thalia spoke up, "I want to meet up with Jason, haven't seen my little brother in days."

"I'll take you," Rob said, "he should be in the field of Mars training with everyone else right now."

Thalia nodded, "great. Percy, I'll call you when I'm done."

"Right," Percy then turned to Rob, "any funny business Rob and I'll know about it. I pushed the last person who hit on Thalia so hard he flew off of mount Olympus."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "relax Percy. Sometimes you're way too overprotective you know."

"Oh I'm sorry is this coming from the girl who basically fuses her tongue to the roof of my mouth every time another girl even looks at me?"

"...fair point."

Julia chuckled, "alright enough. I'm sure Rob will behave like a perfect gentlemen," Rob nodded, "and besides, I think Thalia can handle herself."

Thalia nodded, "damn right I can."

"I know that, but that's not the point. I'm her boyfriend, it's my job to beat up people looking at her funny. It's one of the perks."

Julia rolled her eyes, "come on Percy." And with that the group of four split up and went their separate ways. Rob couldn't help but look at Thalia behind as she walked ahead, and for his troubles he got a zap of lightning aimed at his face.

"OW!"

Percy chuckled, "that's my girl."

Julia sighed, "stupid horn dog. Can't keep it in his pants even if his life depended on it."

"Is that why you two didn't work out?" Percy asked as they walked towards New Rome college in the distance.

"Yes," Julia admitted, "he cheated on me after the third date. And the worse part is it was with another daughter of Venus."

Percy cringed, "damn, I'm sorry. You want me to teach him a lesson?"

Julia gave a sad smile, "now, it's okay. I'm used to it. It was honestly my fault. I thought he liked my for my intellect, but once again it was because of these damn things," she looked down at her huge breasts.

Percy blushed, "y-yea well they are pretty hard to ignore."

Julia chuckled, "should I tell Thalia that you were staring at my breasts?"

Percy gulped, "please don't." Julia gave him a sideway glance but said nothing. Percy sighed, 'maybe that was an okay.'

"So Percy tell me, how does a child of Zeus fall in love with a child of Poseidon?"

"Very easily," Percy shrugged, "I don't really understand how it happened. We just hug out a lot, then one day at a party Thalia was drunk and she just kissed me. Then I started to panic, I basically told myself it was nothing. Later only after Thalia almost died did I finally admit my feelings to her."

"When did the Gods find out?"

"My dad kind of popped in when we were making out during the Alaska quest," Percy blushed, "and believe me it was weird. Luckily he didn't try to blast her into smithereens or anything."

"And Jupit-, I mean, Zeus?"

"He actually did try to blast me into smithereens. Your mom kind of let the cat out of the bag on that one," Percy grumbled, "still can't believe you're actually her daughter."

Julia chuckled, "and why is that? Aren't I pretty enough?"

Percy shrugged, "yeah but that doesn't mean you are a child of Aphrodite. Heck, Thalia is hot as hell and she's a child of Zeus. And I don't mean to brag but have you looked at me lately?"

Julia looked and chuckled, "you truly are such a humble man Percy Jackson. So very very humble."

Percy smiled, "yeah. I know. But seriously, when Thalia and I first saw you we figured you were a child of Ath-Minerva, a child of Minerva. You were basically a prettier version of Annabeth, plus the way you act didn't remind us of any of the children of Venus we knew."

Julia nodded, "yes, I know. My father was an astrophysicist. Handsome guy and very smart. I when I meet my mom for the first time she told me that she found him sexy because of that big brain of his. And something about Minerva being right. Anyway the first day I joined Camp Jupiter everyone expected me to be like every other child of Venus, vain and self conscious. Let me tell you the look on their face when I beat the living shit out of a Legionnaire who was bullying me was priceless. I swear, one of them must have swallowed a fly or something!"

Percy chuckled, "so they all thought you were a pretty bimbo, until you opened a can of whoop ass on them."

Julia nodded, "yup. So after that I managed to get fair treatment. I made sure my voice was heard, and soon I found myself wearing this purple cloth," Julia tugged on it and smiled, "figured now that I was something other than a child of Venus people would start respecting me. Sigh, guess I was wrong."

Percy groaned, "Julia, I'm going to give you my honest opion, fuck those guys. Have I ever told you how my powers work?"

Julie shook her head, "not really. You mentioned something vaguely along the lines of sensing people's aura or something?"

"Yeah."

Lie detected!

Percy pushed the box away and continued, "when I meet a demigod I can tell who their divine parent is right away. That's how I could sort out all the unclaimed demigods in my camp. When I meet Rob I instantly knew he was a child of Mars. When I meet Jason, bamn, child of Jupiter. Basically no demigod can hide their true nature from me. So, with that being said, can you tell me why I was surprised when you said you were a child of Venus?"

Julia shook her head, "no, I don't know."

"It's because you didn't feel like a child of Venus Julia. You felt like a leader, like this camp. Okay, for simplicity's sake let's say these observations I make can be classified as a person's title. So Rob's title is 'son of Mars'. My title is 'son of Poseidon'. But Thalia's title is different, it's 'Protector of camp Half-blood'. It's because she doesn't see herself as a child of Zeus, she sees herself as the protector of her camp. And this type of title change is very difficult Julia. I have saved the camp several times, but I still see myself as a child of Poseidon first. But you, you and Thalia are different. Your title, if I was to guess, would be 'Praetor of Camp Jupiter'."

Julia stopped and looked at Percy, "so your saying I see myself as more of a Praetor of Rome then I do a child of Venus?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. And that's who you are Julia. Look we don't get to pick who or what we are born as. But we do get to chose who we are during our life in this world. You may have been born a daughter of Venus but you are a Praetor of Rome. Never let anyone tell you differently."

Julia blinked as she started at Percy. Percy grew nervous under her gaze and shifted on his feet when she spoke up, "you know, if you weren't dating Thalia you and I would be right now in my bedroom."

Percy blushed, "I-I, well ah, that's a nice gesture but-"

"-Oh relax Percy I'm not that type of person," Julia chuckled, "part of my demigod abilities is to gauge the amount of love felt by people. And you and Thalia...well I certainly don't want to get between you two. After all I've been cheated on before, I certainly don't want to be the other woman in this case."

Percy just stared as Julia continued walking forward. Percy sighed, 'fuck you Aphrodite, or Venus, or which ever divine being that is screwing with my love life.'

Soon the pair reached the front of New Rome collge. One word came to Percy's mind, 'impressive.'

It looked like a Cathedral you would find in Rome...huh, maybe that's where they got the idea from.

It had two towers on either side and a large building in the center. The windows were made of painted glass, each depicting the Roman Gods. The Olympians were there, but not just them as even the minor Gods were featured.

"In Roman education wasn't really a big thing," Julia explained as she walked up the stairs of the cathedral, "people were kept away from knowledge to give power to the ones with it. It was sort of a sick version of class warfare. But, as you know, Christianity was on the rise at the end of the Roman empire, and one of the major reasons was because they were offering education to the common folk through their church."

"People changed religions," Percy realised, "so you all study in a cathedral because that's where most of the ancient romans studied as well."

Julia nodded. They walked in and pushed the heavy wooden doors open. The inside was air conditioned and not at all what Percy expected. The place was in fact very modern, there were lockers, office rooms, class rooms. Heck there was even a TV up showing a loop of the day's bulletin along with some motivational message or something.

"This is not what I was expecting," Percy said with a chuckle, "kind of figured the teachers were dressed like monks and the students had to write in quills or something."

Julia chuckled, "no, no. Just the outside looks like a church, the inside is very much like a normal everyday American college. Heck we even have three lecture halls inside this place. It's also about four stories big, plenty of room for everyone."

"So this is just the college section?"

"Yes. The school is elsewhere, much closer to the residential houses. You know, for the parents to pick up their kids easily,"

Percy nodded, "so how big is this place?"

"Four floors in total, the top is currently being used for club activities."

"Clubs?"

"Drama, chess, writing, things like that. Anything physical is done outside in the Coliseum."

Percy nodded, "I see, so the dorms come with?"

Julia nodded, "yeah. Remember those two towers you saw on the side of the building? The men's are on the right while the women's are on the left. Most students however have a place in the city, maybe a small apartment or something."

Julia then lead Percy into a room marked 'Office'. The inside looked like the reception area with a desk in the center that was covered with various coloured papers and pamphlets.

One woman sat behind the desk with a phone to her ear. She was old, 60, maybe pushing on 70. She had a purple woollen jumper vest on which featured a very white puffy sheep in the center. The older woman looked at Julia and waved, motioning her to sit down.

"Yeah, yeah...sure, yeah….I'll make sure to that," the woman said. Percy looked at her name;

Wendy Swift, Daughter of Pales

Lv- 21

Percy raised an eyebrow, 'who the hell is Pales?'

"So what's her title?" Julia whispered.

Percy shrugged, "I can't figure it out. Maybe because she's a roman demigods or something, but her aura isn't familiar."

Julia nodded, "yes well I didn't expect you to know. She is the daughter of Pales, Goddess of Shepherds and their flock."

Percy looked surprised, "wow…..so she's a sheep herder?"

Julia nodded, "yup."

"...there's a joke in there somewhere about college students and their sheep like mentality but I am far too mature to mention it."

"You, mature?"

Percy shrugged, "people grow up don't they?"

"Sorry about that," Wendy spoke up slamming the phone down, "that was my mother. Wanted to make sure I was alright"

"A Goddess was to check up on you?" Percy asked in surprise.

Wendy chuckled, "well she is the goddess of shepherds, being overbearing is her divine duty."

"Nice to see you again Wendy," Julia stepped up giving the woman a warm smile, "how are things?"

"Good, good, and who is this young man?" she smiled, "your new boyfriend?"

Percy chuckled, "no, I'm already taken. Percy Jackson ma'am, son of Poseidon."

"Ah, yes. The Praetor of the Greek camp. I've heard what you did, returning the Eagle was a great thing young man, it lifted many people's spirits up. I feared that I might never live to see the Eagle again, so glad I was wrong."

"You were there for the Alaskan expedition?" Percy asked in amazement.

The woman chuckled, "yes, I was. Sigh, thoes brave foolish men. Well, can't change the past. What happened to them anyway? Do you know?"

"They were killed," Percy said in a sorrow tone, "a giant by the name Alcyoneus killed them all."

"Is he dead?"

Percy nodded, "Zeus zapped him into a zillion pieces."

Wendy nodded, "good. What happened to the bodies?"

"I gave them a proper funeral," Percy told her, "I didn't have time nor the resource to make individual cloaks, place there wasn't enough to give each their own piece of cloth. So I took down a banner and wrapped them all in it."

Wendy sighed, "good...good. Maybe now that awful incident can finally be put behind us. And I suppose we have you to thank."

"Well me and Thalia."

"Thalia?"

"Thalia Grace, my girlfriend and co-leader of the Greek camp."

"I see, well then tell her I thank her as well. If you two need anything from me just ask."

"Actually we came here to talk to the principal Ms, Wendy," Julia stepped in, "is he in?"

The woman scoffed, "for now. He's currently free, I suggest you try now before he is drowned inside a new project or something."

Julie nodded, "got it. Thanks ma'am."

"Anytime dear, and take care Percy, I hope to hear from you soon!"

"I will," Percy waved back as Julia took him to a door on the side of the room. It was labeled 'Principal' and below it was a note with crude handwriting written in what looked like red sharpie, 'don't' enter unless it's important! That mean's you WENDY!'

"He's kind of out there huh," Percy remarked as Julia opened the door.

"Yeah he's…..unique," Julia responded as she walked in Percy behind her.

"Where the fuck is my rat?!" came a voice from inside the room.

Percy sighed, "why does every single person I meet have to be crazy or fucking insane."

The inside of the office was a mess. There were papers littered all over the floor with random sticky notes hanged up all over the place. There was a fancy table in the center which was covered with even more paper. The only thing that didn't seem coverd with any type of written work was the glass case behind the desk which featured a golden cup of sorts along with other medals.

"Ah...principle?" Julia asked, "are you in here?"

"Julia?"

Bang!

Something hit the underside of the table hard as a man crawled out from under the desk holding his head, "fuck, that hurt like Pluto."

The man was about as old as Castle, maybe older. He was thin and had asian features. His chin was covered with grey stubble and his hair was bright white. He wore a lab coat and glasses that hide back amazing deep blue eyes.

Saito Hiraga, Legacy of Minerva

Lv- 31

"What's his title?" Julia asked, "you must know at least this one by now."

Percy turned to Julia, "Legacy of Minerva."

Julia smirked, "guess those powers of yours does work."

"God's be damned that hurt like hell," Saito said as he sat down on the chair behind the desk, "stupid desk."

"Why were you under a desk?" Julia asked as she and Percy stood in front of him. Percy figured since there wasn't any chairs here he was expected to stand.

"I was looking for my pen," Saito groaned, "stupid thing rolled under the desk."

"So what are you working on this time?" Julia looked over the diagrams, "a time machine?"

Saito grumbled, "no, that would be stupid. It's an interdimensional portal."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "you're joking?"

"Why do people keep asking me that?" Saito grumbled, "no, by the way, I'm not."

"Why do you want to build an interdimensional portal?" Percy asked.

"Why not?" Saito shrugged, "why did people want to go to the moon? Because it was there. I'm doing this because I can."

"And because David thought you can't," Julia giggled.

Saito rolled his eyes, "yeah yeah, now what do you want Julia? I'm very busy with my work."

"Right, I won't be long. This is Percy Jackson," Julia pointed to Percy, "you heard of him?"

Saito shook his head, "I know him, but I have never seen him before."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "really? Because I remember someone telling me the principal and the dean of New Rome college had come to see me at the senate after we returned the Eagle."

"That was David," Saito grumbled, "my dad. I took over this job just two days after that incident. He basically took off after your little speech, said something about 'finding himself' or some crap. Anyway yeah, I know about you, so what do you want?"

So Percy told him. He began with what he wanted to build and how he was going to do it. He also told the man why he wanted to build the Haven in the first place. And in the end Saito was in tears.

"You," sniff, "You're such a great guy!" Sniff, "you are so cool! Building a place for your fellow demigods," and that was when he really let loose as the water works just came pouring out.

Percy turned to Julia, "ah...what's going on?"

"He just get's really emotional," Julia replied with a shrug, "one time I showed him a picture of a puppy and he cried because the puppy was covered in mud."

"It was just so cute!" Saito cried out while Percy chuckled.

"So anyway, can you help me or not?" Percy asked.

"Hell yeah I can help you!" Saito said with a grin as he got up, "follow me!" Saito bolted out of her chair and walked out of his office. "Wendy I'm taking an early lunch!"

"Okay!" Wendy called out as Saito walked out of the office and through the college. At the end of the corridor was a set of stairs leading down. Saito walked in and the others followed. The basement was another corridor, but thie ended halfway through leading up to a dead end.

Saito pressed his palm flat on the wall in front of him causing it to glow gold as the wall disappeared in a flash of golden light revealing a large room.

"Wow," Percy exclaimed as they walked in. As they did the wall suddenly appeared behind them. Percy pressed on the wall,it was solid, so definitely not an illusion.

"This is my lab" Saito called out. Percy turned and walked into a room which basically looked like the exact opposite of Saito's office.

Everything was brand new, or at least polished enough to look like it. Each equipment in this place was labeled with a tag or some other form of identification.

It seemed chrome was a common theme here as everything was covered in were a couple of machines whose purpose Percy couldn't' even begin to imagine. Hell one looked like a pogo stick with a wire attached to it and a drill for a tip.

"What is this place used for anyway?" Percy asked as Saito lead to tone corner of the lab with a table and a whiteboard next to it.

"I come here to do my research," Saito explained. He then pressed his hand on the whiteboard which suddenly blinked on as it started to display images of graphs and quadratic equations. "This is my personal 3-D board, I made it from scratch and is basically my library for anything and everything. Any scrap of information I find I put into this machine."

"So it's basically a big kindle library?"

"That, and much more," Saito smirked as he pulled up a couple of pictures and a one big document, "I also use it to help me come up with theories for my research, investigate various occurrences in the world and even simulate various hypothesis."

"So…...like a swiss army knife?" Percy asked.

Saito sighed, "yes….like a swiss army knife."

Julia chuckled, "Saito built this himself Percy, so he's a little…..attached."

Saito grumbled, "you would too if you actually knew how much hard work I poured into this thing. Anyway, here's the information you needed," Saito stepped aside showing various pages and documents displayed on the board. Several parts were highlighted with yellow marker, Percy focused on those and realised that this was exactly the information he wanted to know.

"So you brought us down here to show all the data compiled in one spot instead of opening up and looking through various documents," Percy realised, "nice."

Saito smirked, "glad someone can appreciate my intelligence."

"That and you also just wanted a chance to show off your lab," Julia smirked, "I know your tricks Saito, every time you want to impress someone you bring them here."

"I would never do that!" Saito gasped in disbelief, "this lab is my most prized possession! I would never reduce it to being nothing more that a cheap tool to show off!"

"Really?" Julai raised an eyebrow, "then what's the rumor I heard about you bringing Louise down here two nights ago?"

Saito gulped, "t-that was just research. She wanted to see my macro particle observe."

"You're making that up."

"No I'm not!"

Julia raised an eyebrow, "Saito our eyes are marco particle observes."

Saito blushed, "w-well she did have lovely eyes."

"Damn Saito I didn't know you were such a player," Percy chuckled, "but I guess smart is the new sexy and all."

Saito grumbled, "shut up. Anyway did you find what you were looking for?"

Percy nodded turning away from the board, "yeah. It seemed the college was first established in 1902, and since security was pretty lax then people couldn't really check it out properly. There was no digital trail and all that. But ever since computers started to take over they had to try and keep up. Mostly the Mist helped with that, but they still had to register with the State Department of Education. So whenever inspectors or someone similar came up to inspect the college they would knock them out and use the Mist to alter their memories. It's crude, but I think I might have to do the same."

Saito nodded, "yeah, sounds about right. I remember dad freaking out everytime the state department wanted to visit or something. He was worried they would endanger the location of New Rome."

Percy nodded, "anyway thanks Saito, this had been really helpful. And this board of yours is amazing, heck maybe I should get some for the school in my place."

Saito grinned, "yeah, it's awesome. And if you want I can make some more for you. If you're going to build a school might as well use the latest tech to help teach better. After all a city of demigods will feature children with a genius level intellect, you definitely don't want to waste that. But it's kind of expensive, each board would be about…..10 thousand? Give or take."

Percy chuckled, "yeah, that's not going to be a problem. How soon can you make them?"

"How soon do you want them?"

"I have plenty of time. I first need to put down the foundation and things like that. So take your time. I might have the place ready in like a year or something. So no rush, obviously."

"Cool."

"You know Saito has some other pretty cool stuff in here," Julia commented looking around, "maybe you can use some of them in the future Percy."

"Hmm," the son of Poseidon thought, "well it would be nice is we had some cutting edge tech in the Haven. Ed is good, but his forte is software, not hardware. Plus he's already stretched out thin as it is. So what do you say Saito? Got any toys for me?"

Saito rubbed his neck, "I don't know...some of this stuff isn't a joke Percy. They can cause harm."

"Good," Percy said seriously, "that means the dumb mother fuckers who ever think about attacking us will regret it before they even step foot inside our city."

"Plus Percy could help you further your research by funding it," Julia spoke up, "didn't you say you were having trouble with cash Saito?"

"W-well yeah but-"

"-I'm game," Percy interrupted the man, "you make some good stuff man, and if I can help you make things that can help mankind then I think that's well worth my money."

"B-but can you even afford it? Some of these things are expensive you know."

"Dude, I know own an island. Okay? A freaking island. Plus I can summon gold out from the Earth. You partner up with me and I'll give you essentially a blank check."

Saito blinked, "shit, you sure you aren't the son of Pluto or something? Because as far as I know only children of Pluto can summon gold."

"Yeah it's a whole thing. It involves a giant in Alaska, let's just move on to the important thing. I can give you funding, you can give me the tools to help protect and better the lives of our fellow demigods. So," Percy extended his hand, "what do you say?"

Saito looked at the offered and and smiled. He reached out and shock it, "deal."

Percy smiled, "great. Now impress me."

Saito chuckled and nodded.

He took them to a table which featured blueprints for what looked like another data pad of some kind. Saito picked it up and placed it on the surface of his white board causing it to scan the blueprint and displaying it on the board.

"I call it Mercury's sight," Saito explained, "it's basically a monitoring program. By using these," Saito pointed to a picture of mini flying drones, "it allows you to monitor any area of land."

"So it's like a drone surveillance system?" Julia asked not sounding impressed.

"No, it's way more than that. It hacks into a nearby satellite and using the information the drones provide and the image of the satellite it can basically allow you to track anyone and everyone on the area you wish to spy on."

"So it's like Big Brother?" Percy asked nervously.

"You have read 1984?" Saito asked surprised.

"Yeah, and why do you sound so surprised?"

"Because….never mind. Anyway yeah, it's basically like big brother."

Percy frowned, "I see…..well obviously I won't be using this on my own city, I respect people's privacy. Plus after reading 1984 drone and other cameras have kind of been creeping me out."

Saito nodded, "understandable, but I never made this to be a civilian motering system. It's to help in war. If you can display both armies like pawns on a chessboard, then even a mediocre general can achieve victory."

Percy nodded, "this is definitely interesting Saito. What else do you have for me?"

Saito walked over to another workbench and presented a metal box with a big fan right in the center. "This is basically my answer to air pollution. The fan can basically ventilate and filtre air at the same time. It reduces air pollution down by 40%. I know it's not big and fancy like any of the other items I have show you, but it's very useful and something this world desperately needs."

"What happens to the pollution it cleans?" Julia asked.

"It's basically used a fuel," Saito grinned, "you see the pollutants in the air are a byproduct of energy useage, at least most of it is anyway. So those particles still have something that can burn. This device does exactly that, hence all the pollutants transforms into energy. And the ones which are not are simply collected and stored like in a vacuum cleaner."

"So you would have to have people manually clean it up," Percy gathered.

"Well yeah, but it's really useful Percy," Saito scratched his head, "plus it's something the world needs night now."

"I'm not arguing that Saito," Percy spoke, "it's just if I put these up, and I will, then I'm going to have to have people clean it out on a regular basis. Hm...maybe I can put it under a common work thing or something. Anyway this will basically give another job for people to do…..hm, I can make this work."

"Plus it's eco friendly," Julia supplied, "hell maybe you can build a factory and build and export these things. It could be one of your island's main exports."

Percy shrugged, "hey I'm open to any ideas. Right now I have only a few jobs for the island, the economy obviously won't be able to improve with just the a few minimum wage paying jobs. This could end up helping us a lot."

Saito smiled, "well then I'll get right on fixing this up for you all. Give me maybe a month?"

"You mean it isn't ready yet?"

"No, this is just a prototype. I'm having trouble with the internal combustion. But don't' worry I can fix it up in time."

Percy nodded and slowly let his eyes wander around the lab. Suddenly in the small corner of the chrome covered lab was a table with a sheet of cloth covering something big.

"What's that?" Percy asked.

"What?" Saito turned to where Percy was looking, "oh, well that really isn't something you can use for the city. Plus it isn't even complete."

"But what is it?"

"My pet project," Saito blushed, "b-but that's nothing useful."

"Don't believe him Percy," Julian smirked "every time he blushes like that it means he wants you to ask him what it is, he's just shy and doesn't want to do it himself."

"I don't do that!" Saito shouted at the Praetor.

Percy chuckled, "look man it doesn't matter. Just tell me what it is, I'm gett more and more curious by the second."

Saito sighed, "fine. You saw my drawing of the dimensional portal right? Well this is kind of it."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "really? This?"

Saito nodded as he lifted the sheet up revealing a box sized object underneath. It was roughly the size of Percy's face and currently connected to several wires. On the top was a bunch of keys and the front was blank like a computer monitor.

"So….what does this do?" Percy asked.

"What do you know of quantum mechanics?" Saito asked.

Percy shrugged, "well I'm just a high schooler but Annabeth once mentioned it. It's basically the study of subatomic particles right?"

Saito nodded, "right. Well no, that's a gross over simplification of it, but close enough. Now the theory of parallel universe simply state that in the space we live in there exists a multitude of other universes. Now right now certain events have occurred which has lead to the creation of our world. But let's say something changed, let's say the Nazis won the war, then in that world we would all be Nazis. Get it?"

Percy nodded, "yeah, I get it."

"Great. So quantum mechanics is by part the theory of probability. Meaning anything that can happen, will happen or at the very least has happened."

"Even if it is a one in a million chance of it happening?" Julia asked,

Saito nodded, "even then."

"So there is probably one world out there where Rob didn't cheat on me huh," Julia frowned, "must be a horrible place."

Percy shuddered, "you just turned this really dark really fast Julia."

"Yeah thanks, it's my superpower," Julia replied with a casual shrug.

"Right….." Saito said, "anyway, as I was saying, probability. So quantum physics deals with that, hence the probability of the whole being ruled by nazis? Let's say ½,meaning that there is a 50% chance of a world existing where Nazis live."

"So…..what're the chances of a fictitious world existing?" Percy asked, "like let's say a world with dragons and magic?"

Saito rubbed his chin and nodded, "well...yeah. Hell there might even be a world where demigods and humans live side by side. Anything is possible, and I do mean anything."

"Sweet," Percy grinned, "maybe I can visit the Game of Thrones universe or something. Damn, if I ever get my hands on those Lannisters I'll make sure to kill them all!"

Julia looked confused, "ah, Percy, what are you talking about?"

"Oh, sorry, did I say that out loud? Look never mind that," Percy turned to Saito, "so how close are you to making this work?"

Saito sighed, "let's just say this, Edison tried a thousand time before he got one simple stupid light bulb to work. I'm trying to do the same thing, only I don't even fully understand the implications of what I am trying to do. Edison at least knew what he was looking for, a durable element that glowed when heated up, I don't' even know how to manipulate the probability matrix of our world, let alone travel through to other worlds."

"Wait probability matrix?" Percy asked.

"Just a name I came up with for branch of physics I'm dealing with," Saito explained, "think of it like a phone number for each universe. Each number represents a particular set of events that formed this world, the ability to identify those numbers will give us a way to identify our universe and other universes."

"So if you figure out which number correlates with which event it should theoretically allow you to pick and choose the world you visit," Julia realised.

"But that means you can basically pick and choose the world you go to," Percy nodded in understanding, "but the numbers must be huge. You would need a super super computer just to process it all."

Saito sighed, "yeah. And not only that you would also need to have a way to create a gateway between worlds. Something not even the Gods can do, that we know off."

Percy nodded, "yeah….but damn Saito, you really are amazing. The last man I meet as brilliant as you tried to kill me, so you're definitely a way better improvement."

Saito chuckled, "yeah, thanks."

"Wait," Julia spoke up, "Percy, this kind of sounds like your ability doesn't it?"

Percy looked surprised, "what do you mean?"

"Your IDs," Julia explained, "you can basically create empty worlds can't you? And world's filled with monsters. Isn't that something like a parallel universe?"

"What is she talking about?" Saito asked in excitement.

"Well, I ah, well I kind of have this power. It allows me to create pocket dimensions," Percy admitted.

"What?!" Saito exploded, "you can create pocket dimensions and you didn't think to tell me?!"

"W-well I kind of thought you already knew," Percy admitted.

"No! Julia! Why didn't you tell me this the moment you knew he could do something like that?!"

"I didn't think it was important," Julia shrugged, "hell this is the first time you even mentioned something like this to me. If you had before I would have brought Percy to you the moment I knew he could do something like that."

Saito cursed himself, "fuck me in the ass! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! The answer was right in front of me the whole time and I didn't notice until it was right under my fuckign nose!"

Percy chuckled, "take it easy man, you're being way to hard on yourself."

"Percy," Saito snapped, "where did you get tese powers?"

"I-ah, I don't know. They just kind of showed up the same time my other demigods powers awoke."

Lie successful!

"Hm….maybe this could be a gift from the Gods," Saito murmured to himself, "tell me Percy what exactly can you do?"

"Well I can create this pocket dimensions, I think. Basically I have three types, one is empty, meaning other than me there is no one else in the world. The other one is filled with monsters and the last one is kind of like the first, except time is kind of diluted, it flows diffrently making every second I sped there longer than the real world."

Saito's hands were shaking now in anticipation, "P-percy, tell me. This world you can create, is it empty? Or is there something in it?"

"Well no, in fact it's like a copy of this world. It has everything this world has, buildings and landscapes. It doesn't have people, electricity, wind or even sound."

"How big is it? Did you ever explore it?"

Percy nodded, "yeah. In my time dilation ID. I went from Montauk, in Long Island, to Boston."

Saito suddenly jumped up, "YES! YES! YES! YES! Thanks you GODS!"

"What happened Saito?" Julia asked, "why're you acting like fat kid in a candy store."

"Julia I might as well be a fat kid in a candy store!" Saito shouted as he grabbed Percy in a tight hug, "you are amazing Percy, never leave me."

"Ah, I have a girlfriend?" Percy asked as Saito broke the hug, "but seriously man why are you this excited?"

"Because don't' you see what this is?!" Saito asked his excitement still running high, "you have the ability to create an empty world, a world with nothing in it. This would allow me to get a probability matrix for a world that is closest to normal. Meaning you Percy can create a universe which basically has a probability matrix of 0."

"Meaning you can work from it and discover the other numbers," Julia said as realisation dawned on her.

Saito nodded, "yeah, plus we have something to compare it to. Since your, what did you call it? Your time dilation ID?" Percy nodded, "right, time dilation ID. Since you have that we can compare the probability matrix for the two worlds and find the number which affects time! Meaning if we combine that and manipulate our world's own probability matrix number we can essentially-"

"Create time travel," Percy realised, "b-but that won't be our world. It would be a world which is exactly like ours."

"So?" Saito asked, "we still would have the ability to shape a world! Think about it, a world where Saturn never rose, a world where demigods didn't have to hide! Percy….you could be the key to unlocking interdimensional travel and time travel."

Percy looked at Saito and then the rectangular device on the table. "Do you really think we can do this?"

Saito nodded, "yes Percy I do. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but if we don't try we will never know if we could have ever succeeded."

Percy nodded. He began to think, 'could I be part of something like this? Fighting a war is one thing, being part of one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in modern times is another. This could change the way we see the universe. Compared to all of that…..I'm nothing. I'm…..no, no. I have always been something. A son, a demigod, a fighter. Maybe now I can add scientific pioneer to that list.'

Percy looked into Saito's deep blue eyes and nodded, "let's do this Saito."

The legacy of Athena grinned, "fuck yeah," he put his hand up high and Percy high fived it.

"So what first?"

"Give me a second," Saito grinned picking up the cube and placing it in Percy's hands, wires and all, "I'll have this set up and running in no time."

Percy nodded and let the man do his thing. The scientist moved all around his lab dragging his white board towards the small work station he had set up next to Percy and the cube. He turned on a PC and connected it to the board using that as a monitor.

"So how exactly does this power work Percy?" Saito asked as he typed away at the keyboard.

"Well I basically just concentrate hard enough and presto, instant pocket dimension. I also bring whatever I'm holding on to," Percy gestured to the box, "so that means this box and the wires attached to it."

"I see….him, hold on," Saito then walked up to a modem on the wall and broke off the wifi signal distributor. He then took the box from Percy and removed the wires on it replacing it with the plastic antenna.

"This should help," Saito said going back to his computer and calibrating the antenna to send and receive signals from the box, "theoretically speaking it should work."

"What are you going to do anyway?" Julia asked looking at the board as it continued to shift from one graph to the next not stopping long enough for one image to register on the Praetor's mind.

"I've converted the antenna attached to the box into a SOS signal that my machine should be able to detect from the fabric of space and time. Should."

"So it's like a big lighthouse?" Percy asked.

"Well more like a lure," Saito explained as the box started to turn itself on, whirling alive, "it basically gives out a signal that we can pick up on and if we can, we can use this data to pinpoint where you are."

Percy nodded, "okay….but is this really a good idea?"

"Why do you ask that?"

"I mean you said it yourself right? It's a lure. If we catch a fish it'll be fine, but if a shark manages to get a hold of it….well, you have seen JAWS right?"

"Relax Percy that should be impossible," Saito waved away the demigod's plight, far too focused on the achievement he was about to accomplish.

"Okay….if you say so. When do you want me to start?"

"Whenever you're ready Percy."

"Be careful Percy," Julia spoke up, "if anything happened to you Thalia would kill me."

Percy grinned, "relax Julia, I'm always careful."

Julia groaned, "I know that look. It's the same one you used when you were about to unload a truck full of imperial gold weapons on us."

"Hey, I didn't hear you complain," Percy shot back, "now shush. We are creating human history right here Julia. So sit back and be amazed."

Saito nodded, "whenever you are ready Percy."

Percy nodded and looked at the box in his hands. He held it tight and focused, 'ID create: Empty!'

The world shifted as suddenly Percy found himself in complete darkness.

'Shit! Did something go wrong?' Percy snapped his fingers forming a ball of fire lighting up the room he was in.

It was the lab, except everything was powered down. 'Right, this place has no electricity, hence no light.'

Percy then looked down at the box he was carrying. It had a loading screen runing. Percy waited patiently for loading bar to fill up when suddenly text popped up on the screen with a sound;

PING!

SAI: PJ? CAN YOU READ?

"Saito! Yeah I can-" Percy stopped, 'what are you doing you idiot? They can't hear you!'

Percy looked to the keyboard on top of the box and smiled.

PJ: CAN READ.

PING!

SAI: RETURN TO HOME?

Percy didn't bother to respond as he closed his eyes and thought, 'ID Escape!'

The world then exploded with light as Percy found himself in an active and bright lab. Julia and Saito were looking at him with a big smile on their face.

"So….did it work?"

"You bet your ass it did!" Saito yelled out in happiness, "I got 590 terabytes of data from that trip alone! I maybe have 40, or 45% of the total probability matrix. The computer couldn't understand the rest, maybe it has something to do with your powers being mystical in nature, but this is the furthest anyone has ever come before!"

Percy grinned, "sweet. Want to test out the time dilation ID now?"

"Percy are you sure that's a good idea?" Julia asked, "maybe we shouldn't push our luck."

"Julia come on, you can't stand there and tell me you aren't the least bit curious about how this is going to turn out. I may not be a genius, but even I'm excited about all of this."

Julia sighed, "well you got me there….fine. But I swear to the Gods if something happens to you it's not my fault."

"Deal," Percy grinned, "now let's try and crack time travel shall we?"

"You my good man are my spirit animal," Saito grinned, "all right, I've saved the data from the previous trip. Let's get this show on the road!"

Percy nodded and closed his eyes, 'ID Create: Time Dilation!'

The world turned dark again, this time Percy didn't bother using his fire as he simply turned to the monitor to wait for Saito's message.

PING!

SAI: DO YOU READ?

PJ: YES

PING!

SAI: WAIT 5 MIN, LOT OF DATA

PJ: K

So Percy waited, he waited and waited. After 5 minutes he typed;

PJ: COME BACK?

PING!

SAI: OLY 1:30 MIN

'What? But I know...time dilutions, shit!'

PJ: TIME IS DIFFERENT HERE. I'LL WAIT

PING!

SAI: THANKS

Percy sighed and sat down with the box held tightly in hand. He had to wait what….20 minutes?

Percy groaned, maybe he should train or something. Or maybe read a book. He did never finish Storm of Swords, there was just a little left, but after the Red Wedding….

Just then;

PING!

ALL FORCES ATTACK!

Percy raised an eyebrow, "what the fuck?"

PING!

ALL HAIL DARKSEID!

"Who the fuck is Darkside?"

PING!

DESTROY THE EARTH! LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND!

Now Percy was really concerned. Maybe it was nothing, a glitch, but that wa a lie and Percy knew it. The message were far too coherent to not be from intelligent life. There were only two options, one someone had attacked New Rome and taken Saito and Julia hostage. Option two someone other than Julia and Saito were contacting him.

Both options were scary to say the least.

'I need to get back home, now,' Percy decided as he stood up, 'ID Escape!'

The world exploded into light as Percy found himself back in the lab. Everything was alright, Julia and Saito just looked at him with confused looks.

"Percy? What are you back so soon?" Saito asked.

"I started getting these weird messages on this thing," Percy told him pointing at the box, "something about destroying the Earth and someone called Darkside."

"Darkside?" Julia asked in surprise, "what kind of second rate super villain name is that?"

"Wait we didn't send those message," Saito spoke up as he looked at his readings, "but we did pick up on something….well an anomaly really. It was brief but…..maybe you were right. Maybe something tried to-"

"WARNING! WARNING! SYSTEM BEING OVERRIDDEN! WARNING!" the computers started to exploded out distracting everyone. Saito flew to the keyboard typing away to try and find out what the problem was.

"What's happening?!" Julia asked.

"I-I don't know! Something is hacking into my systems! Something powerful! It's break down my walls faster than I can build them!"

"Saito the cubes getting hotter," Percy told him, "like really hot." The box was practically glowing now.

"What?!" Saito turned and started at the cube, "no! This shouldn't be possible!"

"Saito why is this thing glowing?!"

"Peyc let go of that now-"

BOOOOOM!

Before Saito could say anything Percy suddenly found a giant white tube opening up behind him as it sucked him inside. Percy let go the box he was holding as he felt himself being pulled out of this world. Bright loud light covered his vision, he couldn't see a centimeter in front of him.

"Percy!" Julia jumped to try and grab him but the mysterious tunnel of light disappeared as soon as it appeared leaving nothing but the glowing white hot computer box behind.

"Percy," Saito looked up in astonishment at what had just happened.

"Saito what happened?!" Julia snapped turning around to the scientist.

"H-he was right."

"What do you mean he was right?!"

"W-we sent out a lure, a signal to everyone. And someone responded. A shark responded. W-we're going to need a bigger boat."

PING!

"What was that?" Julia asked as Saito looked down and started typing away at his desktop.

"Data, new data from...somewhere," Saito said as his computers started to defer all the data that was coming through the box.

"What type of data?"

"A probability matrix, I think...I think this is the matrix of the place that took Percy."

"Saito….what are we going to do?"

"I-I don't know…..I don't know….."

Displayed on the board in front of the two romans were the only two number deciphered by the machine so far: 52.

With Percy

The tunnel of light suddenly stopped as Percy was thrown out onto cold hard cement. Percy rolled on the ground and got back on his feet. He reached into his pocket only to find Riptide and Waverider missing.

'Shit! I gave it to Terminus!' Percy cursed himself as he began to look around for any possible enemies only to find himself on the top of a sky scraper of some kind.

Ping!

You have unlocked a new skill through forced interdimensional travel!

Dimensions portal creation, Lv- 1 (0%)

You can create portals to other worlds.

Known matrix codes;

PJ universe (Home)

NEW 52 universe (Current)

Cost per portal - 20,000,000 MP

Percy looked at the new skill and his eyes widened in horror. This was the proof he needed, he was on longer in his own universe. And he had no idea how he was going to get back.

He looked around, this wasn't a sky line he recognized, so not New York, Boston or San Francisco. Percy looked up and saw a huge golden globe attached to the roof spinning around with the words, 'The Daily Planet' circling it like one of the rings of Saturn.

'Where the hell am I?' Percy turned and focused on what he was seeing. Now that the initial shock was taken care of by Gamer's mind Percy realised this city wasn't normal. There were fires raging on everywhere. He could hear people crying out for help below on the streets while the smell of blood and concrete filled Percy's nose.

Just then a swarm of what looked like giant golden armour reptile monsters with wings flew by the building carrying with them human hostages that were screaming for help.

Percy looked at all of this and only one word came to his head, "fuck."