Chapter 41
Percy would've groaned in annoyance if he wasn't already expecting something like this to happen again. He crossed his arms and gave a mild glare, that even then still sent shivers down all of the mortal's spines, stopping a good block away before speaking.
"I've already beaten you all to a pulp, a few of you multiple times now, and yet you still you come back to fight me like we're not on the same side!?" The very air around him was starting to cast mirages of heat in the air and everything around him started to turn red hot or turn into molten goop as the pressure and heat increased by the second. "I don't know what you're planning, but knowing that none of your weapons have worked thus far I can only imagine that you plan on either leading me into or forcing me into some kind of trap."
A mixture of surprise and several grim expressions met his words but none of them spoke in response, but the woman with red hair: the witch woman he'd met on the Empire State Building, who was actually pretty powerful for a mortal; stepped forwards and spread her arms palms down in a placating manner.
"You know none of this would have to happen if you would just come with us peacefully." She said, "Then after everything clears up we'll be able to talk about what's going to happen." Percy scoffed and his glare became bordering unbearable for even Wanda as she stumbled in place a step before righting herself. The other's weren't faring much better and the only one seemingly unaffected by it was Steve, who despite looking strong outwards was really regretting having picked a fight with such a being as Percy.
"After everything clears up?!" Percy roared brandishing his claws, his stance going into more of a hunting pose, "As if! You wouldn't be able to face Order alone and you know it!!"
"Even if we can't we'll find a way" Steve said stepping forwards and speaking, despite every shred of his being fought against such an action, "We always have found a way, and we always will." Percy just scoffed and suddenly the over-bearing presence they were all feeling was sucked away, leaving a vacuum of an uncomfortable emptiness behind.
Not this time. Percy didn't speak these words aloud, they wouldn't have had the time to register in everyone's mind in time if he'd done so. Then he Moved; a motion so quick that the afterimage of him standing there had barely begun to fade away as he appeared in front of Cap already punching.
The punch just so happened to hit the direct center of his shield and the vibranium itself shuddered a moment before shattering. Turning into a web of fragments before Cap's very eyes, even if his own mind could barely comprehend what had just happened, and he himself was send flying back into a building. The next moment Hawkeye and Black Widow had been thrown into opposite buildings at the side of the street and Iron Man had impacted the ground at a speed and force of which cracks spread throughout and a crater almost as tall as he stood formed beneath his still form.
Percy was done playing around with these mortal punks and he was about to give a barely standing Steve a blow that would've turned the man into a bloody mist his fist was stopped, just barely before hitting Cap's chest, a red energy surrounding it and Percy looked at this new power curiously before a silver flash bodied him into a car. In-front of a barely conscious Cap were the Maximoff twins with Pietro, or Quicksilver, panting in overexertion and Wanda, the Scarlet Witch looking reluctant to go any further.
"Percy grinned at the two and while strained Quicksilver stood back straight and got into a classic dash stance. "So since those four aren't going to be able to do anything you two decided to step in? Isn't that a bit unfair?"
"Says the dude with the characteristics of a wolf-man." Quicksilver quipped, his pronounced accent surfacing a bit with it. Percy's clawed hands twitched a bit at what he was called but he didn't act on it suddenly. Even though it didn't seem like it but the speedster was actually more of a challenge to avoid or counter than Percy'd thought, and with his sister backing him attacking was pretty much pointless.
"It's not nice to call people names speedy" Percy quipped back and Pietro just grunted, still slightly in pain from the blow. Who would've thought some teen would have a body heavier to move than iron. It took everything he had just to manage throwing him into a car, and even then it had little actual speed to it and the damage was just caused from Percy alone impacting it than him.
"Oh yeah, I'll show you what the name Quicksilver means." Quicksilver looked at his sister signalling with a nod before disappearing and Percy scanned the area around him and the two had a stand off while Percy waited for something to happen but after the speedster didn't return after a minute Percy looked at Wanda confused.
"What happened?" He asked confused as to why the other had just disappeared after saying something like that and she just shrugged.
"Like I'd tell you..." She said and Percy hummed in amusement. The two had another staring contest for a moment and Percy tossed a knife at her face disappearing as it froze in place.
"Seriously?" She asked deliriously, but she didn't have to wait long as a sudden spike of danger at the left of her neck had her spinning to avoid it while redirecting energy and throwing a few explosions of energy in the direction she'd been attacked from. Only for nothing to be there and another spike of danger appearing just behind her. This time though she just flared a small explosion of psychic energy and there was a stabbing sound as a red-silver dagger sank into the street just behind her heels.
The next few moments were a sort of cat and mouse with The Scarlet Witch doing her best to avoid the knives being thrown at her while also keeping a psychic field around her so she'd be able to, hopefully, avoid or block any other attack that came at her aside from just knives. Though it didn't seem to matter as her mind was so busy deflecting the ever increasing amounts of knives that she lost connection to her surroundings and a small cut appeared on her upper left arm.
The next moment a searing pain unlike anything she'd experienced before burned through her entire being. She lost control of her powers and fell to the ground in a muffled explosion of power. The reflex she'd grown used to using as a psychic when injured. She looked at the cut as the pain died down in horror. That was just a small nick and it had felt like her entire being was being burned away at a level deeper than she thought even her own powers could have effected.
"I'd suggest not going further but I'm assuming that since the other one hasn't come back for quite some time now you must be stalling so he can prepare something." Percy seemingly materialized before her with the glowing crimson blade of Destruction pointed down at her face. "To be honest I don't want to kill another mortal in this stupid war, but you aren't giving me much other options."
The Scarlet Witch laughed with gritted teeth and a grim expression. "I'll keep standing for as long as it takes, surely you don't have unlimited amounts of energy, so I'll just have to find a way to last longer." She slowly got to her feet once more and flared her power in a red swirl of visible energy. "Come at me with all you got!"
"Alright" Percy shrugged and the ground under her disappeared and the next moment she found herself buried under a building with several cracked and broken bones. Of which she just used her energy to correct and aid in healing while using more to move the rubble out of the way to unbury herself. But as soon as she did so a clawed hand dug into her throat and lifted her into the air.
Three hundred feet up so was thrown back down at a speed that would put a lightning strike to shame and yet even then The Scarlet Witch was able to barely soften the fall with her powers. She just had to last until her brother came back, that was the only thing going through her mind at the moment as their fight continued.
Unbeknownst to both a streak of silver energy was speeding it's way back towards them, a slim streak of red light faded into the surrounding Silver.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
As you can see I'm trying to put up Wanda's powers because honestly I don't feel like 'Age of Ultron', 'Infinity War', nor 'Endgame' in the Avengers series did her any justice according to how powerful she should be.
Also while Percy is much more powerful than she is currently I don't want to just have him wipe the floor with them *cough* the twins *cough* because I'm a biased person that felt like neither got enough screen time. And because the future events scale into what I feel like is a good ending to this war.
For my updating Schedule I want to have enough time to do other things and still be able to update so instead of jumping in at three days a week right off the bat I'm going to try on two: Wednesday & Saturday, or Tuesday & Friday updates so I can still work on other books I need to start in order to live.
Though getting to the point of making money off of my writing will certainly be a hell of a lot harder if I have to get a second part-time job...(because even though I live here America is shit right now in every instance of everything ever)
(P. S. There will probably be more mistakes than usual since this last half was writing on a phone)
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